I would get behind “click through before vote”

Seems like it has potential for abuse, though, aka forcibly driving traffic. It can be defeat-able though, it’s just meant to deter lazy human impulses.

It’s social media. It’s TV.

So I bounce between 3 Trump states, and much of my family is glued to Facebook. Many don’t even know how to use a browser, just apps that serve them. Others religiously watch fox, a lot of cable opinion segments, things like that. I know a kid lost in Discord and YouTube.

Also, you should see the things pastors are saying in one of their churches, in spite of what the clergy have done…

I don’t know what it’s like overseas, but again, Americans seem totally consumed by social media, which is all just algorithmic propaganda that warps their world. And Trump/Musk are literally the top of that world.

It’s only getting worse.

That really is the root issue. No amount of protest, policy, empathy, anything is going to get through as long as people are immersed in these warped views of the world, and any political opposition is completely incapable of realizing that.

Very much intentional, as with any song advocating for “violence”

Banned from Reddit for advocating violence?

Honestly there are one or two communities I was helping keeping alive so they don’t go to Twitter, but it seems that’s happened to one and the other is… not worth it anymore.

You are being downvoted, but you have a point. Not sure what the book said, but theoretically it would be advantageous to “gang up” on China and balance them out, instead of Russia increasingly becoming more dependent on China.

Theoretically, there’s a ton of mutually beneficial economic aid. Even better if the three powers get along.

That’s not the nature of authoritarian regimes though (and I am referring to all three countries now). There are just too many opportunities to take advantage of the other, even when it’s not rational, and there’s a long history from all three countries proving that.

To be clear, you think Russia would ally with the US, and side against China in some kind of conflict?

Again, you can always dual boot, just in case.

What I do is dual boot and “share” a partition between them, so if windows or Linux breaks I can just swap to the other, no problemo.

You joke, but this could totally happen.

Someone please float it to him on Fox. Maybe someone can buy a Trump targeted ad like the Lincoln Project used to.

Well yes that’s the nature of the agreement, it’s our right, but it doesn’t mean we should, especially against the will of the rest of the G7.

What’s even the ostensible excuse?

There might be incentive for that now? They totally could especially if some mass shifts to Linux.

Dxvk also makes life monumentally easier for them, in terms of backwards compatibility, and that wasn’t always a good option until recently.

Funny thing is SWTOR has some great art, heartfelt voice acting and quests, great soundtrack and such, but at the end of the day it’s buried in a grindy.

On the other hand, I tried Fallout 76 (after it was patched up) drunk with friends, and it was boring as heck. The quests were so dull, gameplay so arbitrarily janky and grindy. Drunk! With friends! Do you know how low a bar that is :/

Look at it this way:

Many (most?) defective GPUs ship that way, and fail early. If you buy used, it’s already lasted that long.

TBH operating systems are like tools, and if windows isn’t too intrusive and neutered, it can be OK.

I use Windows for gaming/media, for performance reasons, and (CachyOS) Linux for GPU compute stuff, dev work, office, pretty much anything else.

Then don’t buy on launch day? It pretty much always sucks, better just to go back a generation.

Again, not trying to be disrespectful, but launch GPUs just seem super unappealing to me.

Their supply chains are quite globalized.

There have been mobile competitors like Imagination, but the reality is cutting edge chip design is enormously expensive and hard, and there’s a big performance gulf. Imagination (and others) can’t afford to fab their own designs, and no one takes them up on it unless it’s a mobile chip or something.

SiPearl was working on a rather massive ARM CPU: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16072/sipearl-lets-rhea-design-leak-72x-zeus-cores-4x-hbm2e-46-ddr5

Looks like the effort is still alive, but it was focused on server stuff and compute.

I mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly? Did the old one conk out?

Maybe I’m lucky, but no used GPU I bought has ever died. Ironically, only a new 6850 I had ages ago was kinda funky.

I’m a sucker for wandering lush bucolic landscapes though.

You should play KC Deliverance 2 if you haven’t. Its forests and rural villages are freaking gorgeous, especially for how “easy” it is to run.

The Silverstone Sugo SG09 and SG10 were awesome if you can find them. A bit bigger, but they support full PSUs, with the option for cheaper micro atx mobos. Cooling is good too.

Also, the node 202 width restriction is a bit conservative, it fits my much larger/thicker ftw3: https://www.evga.com/products/specs/gpu.aspx?pn=E2763314-163F-4391-8935-EA2C5DFFD06B

But like you said, no full sized psu.

Well if you are getting a new case, and are into modding, I adore my fractal design node 202. It’s tiny, fits a 420W 3090, and you can duct the cpu/gpu to its vents with like $5 of foam strips. I have no case fans, yet the cpu/gpu idle with their fans off and barely spin up because they only suck in outside air.

The newer fractal ridge is a bit bigger, but should work much better with no modding since it’s more “open”